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Skip to comments.Barone: Why Democrats won't want to oppose Samuel Alito
Posted on 11/01/2005 4:23:15 PM PST by RWR8189
George W. Bush has nominated Judge Samuel Alito of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to the Supreme Court. Judge Alito has a strong record academically and in government. He was U.S. attorney for New Jersey, a high-pressure job in a state where corruption ishow shall we say this?not unknown. To be confirmed for that position, Alito would have to have been approved by New Jersey's two Democratic senators at the time, Bill Bradley and Frank Lautenberg, the latter of whom is again serving in the Senate. From my knowledge of those two men, I believe they would not have approved Alito unless they were convinced that he was (a) highly competent, (b) completely honest, and (c) not likely to use his power as a prosecutor for political purposes. They certainly understood the importance of the job and would not, I think, have given their approval lightly. Here's what Lautenberg and Bradley said about Alito's appointment as U.S. attorney.
Conservatives who opposed the nomination of Harriet Miers were, as everyone expected, delighted by the choice of Alito. So was Hugh Hewitt, the conservative radio talk-show host, blogger, and lawyer, who steadfastly supported Miers. I think it's safe to predict that all Republican senators will support Alito, with the possible exception of Olympia Snowe. I don't think Lincoln Chafee will oppose him, for reasons that I'll get to later in the post.
As for the Democrats, they're in a mood to fight and, if possible, to filibuster. Charles Schumer, always fast to the microphone, issued the following statement at 7:44 a.m., before the president spoke: "It is sad that the president felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide America instead of choosing a nominee in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor, who would unify us. This controversial nominee, who would make the court less diverse and far more conservative, will get very careful scrutiny from the Senate and from the American people." Nothing here on Alito's sterling credentials, even though Schumer was careful to show respect for John G. Roberts's sterling credentials when his nomination was announced.
On this appointment the Democrats are caught between two constituencies. On one side is the feminist left. They have to oppose Alito if they want the people on their direct-mail lists ever to send in money again. The reason is that Alito wrote a dissent in 1991 upholding the Pennsylvania abortion law challenged in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The law in question required the woman seeking an abortion to give notification to her husband, with some exceptions. "(1) [The husband] is not the father of the child, (2) he cannot be found after diligent effort, (3) the pregnancy is the result of a spousal sexual assault that has been reported to the authorities, or (4) [the woman seeking an abortion] has reason to believe that notification is likely to result in the infliction of bodily injury upon her." Judge Alito followed the criteria set by O'Connorwhom, if he is confirmed, he will replacewhich he said were the decisive opinions on the Supreme Court. He wrote, "Although the plaintiffs and supporting amici argue that Section 3209 will do little if any good and will produce appreciable adverse effects, the Pennsylvania legislature presumably decided that the law on balance would be beneficial. We have no authority to overrule that legislative judgment even if we deem it 'unwise' or worse. U.S. Railroad Retirement Board v. Fritz, 449 U.S. at 175, 101 S.Ct. at 459. 'We should not forget that "legislatures are ultimate guardians of the liberty and welfare of the people in quite as great a degree as the courts."'Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, 462 U.S. at 465, 103 S.Ct. at 2511 (O'Connor, J., dissenting), quoting Missouri, K. & T.R. Co. v. May, 194 U.S. 267, 270, 24 S.Ct. 638, 639, 48 L.Ed. 971 (1904)."
The Casey in the case, by the way, was the late Pennsylvania governor Bob Casey, whose son, Bob Casey Jr., will be the Democratic candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania in 2006 and who is currently leading Sen. Rick Santorum in the polls. Presumably, Casey Jr. would not urge a vote against Alito for his opinion upholding a law strongly backed by Casey's father. Still, I expect that left liberal Democrats like Schumer, Edward Kennedy, and Richard Durbin are itching to oppose this nomination and will try to filibuster. They believe there's a chance a filibuster can work.
But if they filibuster, they risk alienating another constituency, Italian-Americans. To understand the risk, consider the number of votes cast against the confirmation of Antonin Scalia in 1986. That number was zero. Democrats knew Scalia was a judicial conservativehe had a paper trail as an academicbut they also knew that Italian-Americans very much wanted to see a fellow Italian-American on the Supreme Court. For many years I have attended events sponsored by the National Italian American Foundation, an organization established in the 1970s in large part to dispel the Mafia stereotype. NIAF has been proud to seat the director of the FBI at the head table as its annual dinner. It was proud that in 1984 the four Democratic and Republican nominees for president and vice president (including Geraldine Ferraro, remember) attended its dinnerthe only time in American history, I believe, that four nominees attended a single event.
The late Peter Rodino, longtime chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a liberal Democrat on most issues, once told me with tears in his eyes that one of his greatest regrets in life is that his father did not live long enough to see the first Italian-American on the United States Supreme Court. In 1987 I spent a day in Wilmington, Del., with Joseph Biden, who was running for president. He took me around the town, introduced me to his mother and father, and took me to lunch at a little restaurant in Wilmington's Little Italy. He knew everyone there very well and was very warmly received. The thought later occurred to me: There was no way this guy was ever going to vote against the first Italian-American on the Supreme Court. And no way any senators from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts were, either. They all had their friends in their state's Little Italy, and they weren't going to disappoint them. Scalia seems aware of this. He's reportedly willing to speak to any Italian-American organization that invites him.
Italian-Americans are less defensive today and probably less ethnically conscious. The political risks of opposing an Italian-American are therefore probably less than in 1983. But they're not zero. I wonder whether Tom Carper of Delaware (where 7 percent of the population in the 2000 census said they were of Italian ancestry), Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey (14 percent), Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York (11 percent), Christopher Dodd and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut (14 percent), and Jack Reed of Rhode Island (14 percent) really want to go to the length of supporting a filibuster against an Italian-American judge with sterling credentials and majority support in the Senate. I'm pretty sure that Lincoln Chafee, facing a conservative opponent in the Republican primary in Rhode Island, the state with the nation's highest percentage of Italian-Americans, doesn't want to oppose Alito. If I were giving him political advice, I would certainly advise him not to do so. As much as one quarter of Republican primary voters there will have Italian names or Italian ancestors. And what about Patrick Leahy of Vermont, who is of Italian descent (on his mother's side) as well? He's often been given a place of honor at NIAF dinners. I'm not sure he'd want to attend if he opposed Alito. The audience there is, to judge from responses at the dinners I've attended, about half Republican and half Democratic. But I'll bet they'll be close to 100 percent for Alito.
Note that George W. Bush was careful to point out that Alito's father was an Italian immigrant. I don't think the Democrats failed to notice that.
The hearings will probably make some difference. Alito's supporters argue that he is a very careful and polite judge, not given to sarcastic and humorous remarks as Justice Scalia is. He certainly seems to have a solid grounding in the law. He may or may not have the charm Roberts showed, but he seems likely to make a very positive impression. My guess is that the left Democrats are not going to be able to get the 41 votes they need for a filibuster. Sens. Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Kent Conrad of North Dakota, both up for re-election next year in solidly Republican states, voted for Roberts. So did Byron Dorgan of North Dakota and Max Baucus of Montana. They're not likely filibusterers. Bill Nelson of Florida, up for re-election next year, would take some political risks by opposing him. That's fiveenough to defeat a filibuster right there. When you add to that the senators listed above from states with large numbers of Italian-Americans, many of whom in my judgment will be lukewarm at best about joining a filibuster, you can see why I think Schumer and company will not get up the head of steam they need.
Footnote: Here's the National Italian American Foundation's statement on the nomination of Judge Alito. It comes from A. Kenneth Ciongoli, chairman of the foundation.
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) applauds President George W. Bush on his nomination of Samuel A. Alito Jr., a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, to the position of associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.Judge Alito, whose father immigrated to the United States from Italy, is highly respected in the judicial community for his constitutional knowledge and his impeccable character.President Bush has chosen an individual whose intellect and qualifications are above reproach. We are proud and fortunate that he shares our Italian heritage. Washington, D.C. Oct. 31, 2005.
He's in like Flynn!
Bush has made the Democrats an offer they can't refuse.
The high court moves one-half seat to the right. Kennedy becomes the swing vote.
They can live with that.
If Ginsburg's or Stevens's seat comes open then all hell breaks lose.
They'll have nothing to lose by filibustering because it's Custer's Last Stand as far the liberals are concerned.
"Go ahead and filibuster Dems, there is a nuke in your future!"
Or at least the trunk of someone's car. ~;^D
I wonder how much longer it's going to be until political assassination is the only tool left to the Democrats?
It would be to our advantage to use the constitutional option now to replace O'Connor, that way we are ensured that only 50+ VPOTUS are needed to confirm the next nominee.
Some wobbly RINOs might be scared to go nuclear when we are replacing Stevens or Ginsberg.
Now if we could only get the people in these states to realize that continually electing Dems to the Senate and voting strongly for Republicans for President is schizophrenic...
That's exactly why I think the Democrats will cave before we can use it on this nomination. If they are even remotely intelligent, they'll adopt the "live to fight another day" principle.
It seems like they've been hinting at that for some time.
eh...Italian Americans?...I find it too hard to buy what this author is saying. Italian is not the issue, but religion is - such as if his Catholicity is his foundation for his conservativism. Bottom line is that he is conservative, so many conservative Catholics (Italian or otherwise) like myself will support him.
You gotta love Barone.
I understand the reasoning here, and figure it is probably fairly accurate.
But, gee whiz, in reality what does having italian blood have to do with the price of tea in China? Nothing. It is an extremely sad commentary on our society when attributes such as the birthplace of one's parents are considered part of qualifications for such a [or any] position.
And the real irony here is that the people that put the most stock in sex and race as qualifications (i.e. Bush should have appointed a minority or woman for balance) are the first to claim we shouldn't single people out because of their race and/or sex. But that is all they do, all of the time. And republicans do a very poor job of challenging them on it.
I suppose someone had to actually voice that...
The problem is, that the longer they wait to run a filibuster, the worse their political problem the next time, on the next nominee.
Suppose, for example, Ginsberg or Stevens were to leave the Court, and The President were to replace that person with someone even as "moderate" as Kennedy --- that would really cook the liberal goose - yet could they filibuster such a candidate? (Suppose for purposes of this discussion, judicial philosophy of Gonzales...)
Their problem is right now... with this nomination ... the next one may be too late because even a moderate justice may well hose them.
I believe that the R philosophy of that question is that those who can be persuaded to vote Republican to begin with are smart enough to figure out the bigotry themselves, without having to be bashed over the head with it. Before talk radio and the internet, the R's had that philosophy, stuck with it and you had to be analyze it for yourself. Now, anybody who has ears will be exposed without the R politicians having to engage the question directly.
I don't think he'll do that, though. His short list was Miers, Alito, and Luttig. Miers blew her chances by failing to wow the senators in personal visits, and Bush doesn't give second chances. He never has.
I'd have to say that unless something new comes up with Luttig, he's the choice to replace Ginsburg or Stevens if neither is able to outlast the Bush Presidency.
A lot depends one whether another vacancy occurs before or after the 2006 elections and whether that changes the senatorial lineup.
100% agreement with your post - every single detail.
Re-reading your post...
I would certainly love it if he were to succumb to "political correctness" and nominate JRB for the next opening...
Apoplexy unlimited for the Demodogs then!
(SNAP *** *** time for me to wake up from this wet dream...)
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Mortgage Interest Rates Have Begun to Level Off
May 1, 2018
Whether you are a buyer searching for your first home or a homeowner looking to move up to your next home, you should pay attention to where mortgage interest rates are heading.
Over the course of 2018, according to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey, rates have increased from 3.95% in the first week of January to 4.40% in the first week of April.
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Ellis County cotton and grain farmer Ricky Johnson had a near ideal window to plant wheat last fall. Moisture was adequate and the crop got off to a good start. It did well through the winter and into early spring, dodging a bullet from an April freeze and showing promise of 50-bushel per acre yields.
Disaster didn't hit until rains began in May and persisted through June and into July.
Johnson was far from through with harvest the second week of July, a time when he's ordinarily vacationing with his family.
He didn't expect last fall to be cutting wheat after Independence Day. He didn't expect to have to go to Kansas to buy a four-wheel drive combine. And he didn't expect to need to borrow 50-inch wheels to put on the front of that machine to muck through fields to cut a badly damaged crop.
"I have 700 to 800 acres left to cut," Johnson said as he readied the four-wheel drive to harvest a field just outside the Waxahachie city limits in mid-July. And he said he was fortunate. " I saw a lot of wheat in Oklahoma still underwater."
Johnson got some wheat out early but not much. "If I didn't have the four-wheel drive combine and wide flotation tires I couldn't cut now," he said.
He has anther, two-wheel drive machine but said it is useless in muddy conditions.
"I also cut less in a day than I normally do. I can run from daylight to dark and have to quit. I can't combine in the mud in the dark."
Johnson says he's harvesting about half as much acreage as usual in a day.
And he's getting hammered with quality discounts. "Sprout damage is running about 12 percent on my hard wheat and it's grading mostly 5, on the border of wheat and feed wheat. Any worse and we'd be selling feed."
He expected sprout damage to be higher. "It stayed wet so long, I thought it would be worse," he said."
Test weight has run 56 to 57 and he expects to average no more than 20 or 30 bushels per acre. "We may see some hit 40 but not much. And we had potential to make 50 to 60 bushels per acre."
He says soft wheat will not do as well. "I've shelled some and sprout damage may top 50 percent. That will be feed wheat."
"But some of our growers will not harvest at all," said integrated pest management specialist Glen Moore. "A lot of them don't have the equipment to get it out."
"This was the best crop I'd seen in years," Johnson said.
"Prices were up, too," said Moore.
Johnson hoped to get all his wheat cut before the end of July. "I need to be done in about 10 days or a lot of grass and weeds will push through," he said. "It's still relatively clean but I can see weeds coming on."
Johnson said this is a good year to be diversified. "I hope to make up for some of the wheat losses with a good corn and cotton crop. Diversification is a luxury. It keeps us in business during bad years."
He also runs a cow/calf operation and said cattle prices have been good and hay supplies ought to be plentiful this year, "if we can get it baled."
He said the corn crop looked good in mid-July and had enough moisture to see it to harvest. "Corn is finished," he said. "I'll start cutting corn the first week in August."
He said the crop was "pretty much on time."
Cotton suffered a slight delay because of cool, damp weather but Moore says it will catch up as heat units begin to accumulate.
Grass and weed problems have been a challenge. "We were able to get a hooded sprayer in by mid-July," Johnson said. "We hope top get weeds under control. Some fields are worse than others. But we were out of the fields completely for about a month. We could do nothing at all because of constant rain. We ran a hooded sprayer one day and then it started raining and it rained every day for four weeks."
Moore said cotton insect problems have not been "out of the ordinary. We had a few flea hoppers but with success of the boll weevil eradication program the weevil is almost out of the picture."
Johnson plants almost all Roundup Ready and Bollgard cotton. Bt cotton is a good investment, he says. "When we have to spray worms in cotton we've already had enough damage to pay the technology fee. It's a good product and we have to use available technology. Every year is different and sometimes we may not recover the technology fee."
But it's a good bet, he said.
"Bt varieties give us a window of opportunity to avoid pest problems," Moore said.
"It's also a time advantage," Johnson said. "With Bollgard cotton we don't have to stop cutting corn in August to spray cotton for worm infestations."
Moore said plant growth regulators pose the biggest management challenge for this cotton crop. "We'll be putting on pretty heavy rates for this area."
"Glen scouts our cotton for us and he's had us apply Pix with flea hoper treatments," Johnson said.
He'd already applied 8 to 10 ounces and expected to need more. Moore anticipated as much as 40 ounces per acre in some fields. "That's unusual."
Johnson started farming on his own in 1977 and said he had never seen a year like 2007. "I've never seen this much rain in June and July. We had a lot of water still standing in the fields by July 12."
Somehow, Johnson had maintained his sanity and a sense of humor. "Most of our farmers have," Moore said, "even when they realized that weather threatened yield, quality and prices for their crops."
"It's all in the Lord's hands,' Johnson said.


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Murdoch Pulls the Ultimate "Reverse Ferret"
The real meaning of the News of the World closure.
When legendary editor Kelvin MacKenzie ran Rupert Murdoch's London Sun in the 1980s and early 1990s, he would incite his reporters into tabloid action by ordering them to "put a ferret" up the trousers of the powers that be. As Neil Chenoweth writes in Rupert Murdoch: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Media Wizard:
[MacKenzie] would do this until the moment it became clear that in the course of making up stories, inventing quotes, invading people's privacy, and stepping on toes, the Sun had committed some truly hideous solecism—like running the wrong lottery numbers—when he would rush back to the newsroom shouting, "Reverse ferret!" This is the survival moment, when a tabloid changes course in a blink without any reduction in speed, volume, or moral outrage. In the midst of a disaster of its own making, it pulls a ferret out of a hat and sails on.
Chenoweth continues:
Murdoch's entire business style may be characterized as a reverse ferret. Time and again when his plans have gone awry and he has found himself facing calamity, his superb survival skills have saved him. Just before he hits the wall, he does a little dummy, he feints this way and that, and then he sets off with undiminished speed in a new direction. This is Murdoch's genius: not that he gets into a jam, but that he is able to walk away afterward, an implausible winner.
Today, as Murdoch's son James announced that News Corp. is shuttering its besieged News of the World, the voice you really heard was Rupert Murdoch, running away from the paper as fast as his 80-year-old legs would carry him, howling "reverse ferret" at full power.
The dramatic closure of the 168-year-old newspaper is Murdoch's way of deflecting attention from not just the paper's scandalous phone-hacking ways but its destruction of evidence in the Milly Dowler murder case, its payoffs to police, its role in the cover-up of the scandal, and lord knows what other crimes it committed. By killing the newspaper, said by the Guardian to be the company's most profitable venture, Murdoch hopes to create the illusion that justice has been done. By abruptly closing the paper, Murdoch also scatters a potentially incriminating paper- and computer-trail.
Although the 2.66 million circulation News of the World will die after its last edition Sunday, the newspaper's ferret is still very much alive and may soon have a new home. The Guardian, whose investigations under reporter Nick Davies uncovered the phone-hacking outrages, has already spotted the furry creature migrating to another Murdoch-owned London tabloid. The Guardianreports, "There are already industry rumours that the News of the World's stablemate the Sun could be turned into a seven-day operation." When asked by the BBC if a Sunday edition of the Sun was in the works, a company spokeswoman answered cryptically, "What happens to the Sun is a matter for the future."
When the subject is financial crimes, this sort of artful shifting of assets is called "money laundering."
The cover story Murdoch has advanced from the beginning and continues to push is that rogue operators were responsible for the scandal. That's the line James Murdoch observed today, when he told the News of the World staff the paper must die so the company could live.
"Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad and this was not fully understood or adequately pursued," James Murdoch said.
In a BBC interview today, James Murdoch was all regrets and apologies, but he continued to stand up for Rebekah Brooks, who was News of the World editor when Milly Dowler's phone was hacked and now serves Murdoch as chief executive of News International. Brooks, it should be noted, is one of Rupert Murdoch's favorite people on the planet. To believe the young Murdoch, he, his father, their company, and Brooks are the victims of the phone-hacking crimes, not the sponsors. "She has a good standard of ethics and her leadership is the right thing for the company," he said of Brooks.
What rot. As this Guardiantimeline of statements made by Murdoch executives over the past four-and-a-half years reveals, the company had ample notice that "wrongdoers" were running amuck inside its newsroom as well as the executive suite. "All of these irresponsible and unsubstantiated allegations against News of the World and other News International titles and its journalists are false," the company claimed in July 2009 in response to Nick Davies' first phone-hacking report in the Guardian. "The Guardian coverage, we believe, has substantially and likely deliberately misled the British public," wrote Brooks that same month.
The torching of News of the World by Rupert and James Murdoch is a confession, but of what? Surely it is not a confession of personal guilt or even corporate guilt. As James Murdoch told News of the World staffers, the current staff isn't responsible for the "mistakes" and "egregious behaviour" as he calls them, committed by the company and the paper. "I can understand how unfair these decisions may feel," he told the staff without ever explaining why he was punishing them for something they didn't do.
Like all reverse-ferret maneuvers, the closing of News of the World is designed to scatter and confuse the audience. It looks like the sacrifice of something very special to him, seeing as it was his first U.K. newspaper acquisition in 1968. But it's not. It looks like atonement, but it's not. It's supposed to change the subject, but it's too late for that. The most shocking thing to me about the paper's closure is what an empty gesture it is. I expected much better from the genocidal tyrant.
The tricky thing about the reverse ferret is that unless you nab the beast the moment it bursts out of a pant leg, it can be impossible to apprehend. From the way News Corp. is acting, it looks to me as if the Murdochs have lost control of their precious ferret. If I were Rupert Murdoch, I'd start wearing my socks over my cuffs. Ferrets will eat anything that looks and smells like meat.
Now if the Murdochs closed Fox News Channel in an act of expiation, I would be more receptive. What Murdoch operation should Rupert close next? Send ideas to email@example.com. If Murdoch shuts Fox News, I shut my Twitter feed. Also, in a contest between the honey badger and the reverse ferret, which would win? Email me your views on that, too. (Email may be quoted by name in "The Fray," Slate's readers' forum; in a future article; or elsewhere unless the writer stipulates otherwise. Permanent disclosure: Slate is owned by the Washington Post Co.)
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Although the Detroit Lions were pleased with their victory over Chicago last weekend, the game's last few minutes highlighted a potential trouble spot.
With cornerbacks Chris Houston and Rashean Mathis sidelined because of injuries, the Lions allowed two late touchdowns before holding on for a 40-32 win. Now the secondary has another challenge on the horizon — Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers this weekend.
"Aaron Rodgers is a whole 'nother animal on the field," Detroit cornerback Darius Slay said. "Smart, very, very, very accurate. It's our goal to slow him down."
The Lions (3-1) intercepted three of Jay Cutler's passes Sunday, but Mathis was shaken up early and didn't return, and Houston injured his hamstring. Cutler threw for two touchdowns in the final 4 minutes — as well as two 2-point conversions — to add a bit of drama to the finish.
"We weren't in prevent mode," coach Jim Schwartz said. "There are a couple plays that we could have played better in there."
Schwartz said Mathis was held out as a precaution but passed a concussion test. He's been back at practice. Houston, however, did not practice Thursday.
Green Bay (1-2) has struggled to start the season. Rodgers threw two interceptions in a loss to Cincinnati on Sept. 22. Then the Packers had a weekend off.
Still, Green Bay's lone victory was a reminder of how dangerous its offense can be. In a 38-20 win over Washington in Week 2, Rodgers went 34 of 42 for 480 yards with four TDs and no interceptions.
"We know they're going to make plays with Aaron Rodgers. We're just trying to slow them down, create turnovers, sack them," Slay said. "We know he likes to get rid of the ball fast, so we're going to try to tighten up our coverages."
Slay is the man who could be on the spot this weekend. The rookie from Mississippi State has started two games this season, and if Houston is out, Slay figures to be his replacement.
"He has a tremendous amount of potential," safety Don Carey said. "One of the best athletes we have on the team — fast, reads real well."
The Lions can also turn to players like Bill Bentley and Jonte Green at cornerback. Mathis was signed in the offseason after 10 seasons with Jacksonville, and his participation in practice after his injury has been a positive sign.
"He can fill in both corner positions, the nickel and safety position," Schwartz said. "He's worked really hard with the other players. It's disappointing to lose him after the first quarter last week, but he was a big addition for us."
Detroit held off the Bears in part because Chicago went 1 of 13 on third down. The Lions have held opponents to a 21.3 percent conversion rate on third down — the best defensive mark in the league.
"Third down will go a big way to getting Green Bay's offense stopped," Schwartz said. "It's well documented, they've put yards up. If we get off the field on third down — that can either be a field goal attempt in the red zone, or it can be a punt — those are good situations for our defense."
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"LG Optimus G is the culmination of cutting-edge technologies provided by LG's class-leading global entities," said James Fishler, senior vice president, marketing and go-to-market operations, LG Electronics USA. "Drawing upon expertise from the LG Mobile Communications Company, LG Display, LG Chem and LG Innotek , we have carefully designed a new superphone that encourages users to step beyond everyday boundaries and explore a limitless world of power and creativity."
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A teen has been shot to death while shooting baskets in a park in Fairmont.
Authorities said 16-year-old DaQuan Stephens was on the basketball court in the park around 6 p.m. Friday when two men got out of a car and walked up to him.
Investigators say the men briefly spoke with the teen, then fired several shots before leaving in a car driven by a woman.
Stephens died a short time later at the hospital.
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PLYMOUTH, Mich., Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Plastipak Holdings, Inc. (the "Company") announced today that it will file its Form 10-K Equivalent Report for its fiscal year ended November 3, 2012 electronically with Wells Fargo National Bank, as Trustee for the holders of its 10.625% Senior Notes due 2019 (the "Senior Notes"), by the close of business on Friday, February 1, 2013. The Company is not required by the Indenture for the Senior Notes to file annual, quarterly or periodic reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), and therefore does not plan to file these reports with the SEC.
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Lesson 1: Children's reading abilities benefit directly from participation.
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Lesson 3: CDF Freedom Schools programs increase the effectiveness of parental involvement in their children's education.
CDF Freedom Schools programs help parents do a better job supporting their children's academic development by exposing them to fun, high-energy teaching methodologies and imparting a greater understanding of children's development and learning styles.
Lesson 4: Servant leader interns are chosen because they will be positive role models for children.
Many servant leaders interns are involved in their communities and campuses as leaders before joining CDF Freedom Schools program sites. They bring their assets to CDF Freedom Schools programs, and learn new skills there. CDF Freedom Schools sponsor partners choose their interns well.
Lesson 5: CDF Freedom Schools programs are valuable assets to sponsor partners.
Organizations that host CDF Freedom Schools programs have histories as strong community groups. Most operate a number of programs serving their communities. However, the CDF Freedom Schools program has provided them a way to do something they were not doing or, more often, to do it better. It has filled an important gap.


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The Birds and the B's
Are morning-after pills abortion or contraception?
If you thought it was hard figuring out your views on abortion and birth control, get ready to wrap your mind around something in between.
Emergency contraception, also known as the "morning-after pill" and marketed in this country as "Plan B," is a drug that a woman can take after sex but before an embryo attaches to her womb. If you don't know much about this murky week in the reproductive process, it's time to learn. Lawmakers in many states are deciding right now whether EC will be easy or hard to get. Some say it causes abortions. Some say it only prevents them. And the dirty little secret is, nobody really knows.
The Food and Drug Administration approved Plan B in 1999. Since then, it has become the focus of a political war. Under President Bush, the FDA blocked over-the-counter access to the drug. Proponents of EC have turned to the states; opponents have responded with legislation protecting pharmacists who won't sell it. Battles are raging everywhere. Last Monday, the governor of Illinois ordered a crackdown on pharmacists. Last Tuesday, the Maryland Senate rejected over-the-counter access; last Thursday, the Colorado Senate approved it. Already, EC is a factor in the 2008 presidential race. Republican governors Mitt Romney (Massachusetts) and George Pataki (New York) vetoed EC access bills last summer. Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (New York) is blocking Bush's new FDA appointee over the issue.
The outcome of the war depends on whether EC gets defined as birth control or abortion. Several states have excluded it from insurance coverage or Medicaid-funded family planning. Romney, in his veto message, said if EC were "contraception, I wouldn't have a problem with it." Nor would most Americans. In a Zogby Interactive survey released a week ago, 44 percent of respondents supported over-the-counter access to "the morning-after abortion pill." Change that question to "the morning-after birth-control pill," and the minority would instantly become a majority. Even Supreme Court nominees John Roberts and Samuel Alito, while reserving judgment on Roe v. Wade, endorsed Griswold v. Connecticut, which established the right to birth control.
Many people think EC can't be birth control, since it's taken after intercourse. This is—forgive me—a misconception. Sex-education classes often give the impression that the egg waits for sperm to show up. It's usually the other way around. An egg loses its fertility within 12 to 24 hours. It takes sperm about 10 hours to reach the egg, and sperm can survive in the female reproductive tract for up to five days. If you want to get pregnant, you'd better send in the sperm before the egg shows up. But if you don't want to get pregnant, and the sperm are on their way or already there, you still have time to stop the egg.
That's the idea behind Plan B. "It prevents pregnancy mainly by stopping the release of an egg," says the manufacturer, Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. However, Barr adds, the drug "may also prevent the fertilization of an egg" or prevent a fertilized egg "from attaching to the uterus."
There's the rub. If you think a fertilized egg is a human being, as anti-abortion activists do, then preventing it from attaching to the uterus is abortion. Some anti-abortion groups—Americans United for Life, the American Life League and Concerned Women for America—assert flatly that Plan B does this. The National Right to Life Committee, however, isn't sure. It's taking no position until Plan B's effects are clarified. The South Dakota legislature, which banned abortions a month ago, exempted any "contraceptive measure, drug or chemical, if it is administered prior to the time when a pregnancy could be determined through conventional medical testing"—i.e., Plan B.
Even the Catholic Church is uncertain. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops authorizes doctors to offer a rape survivor a drug that blocks ovulation or fertilization "if, after appropriate testing, there is no evidence that conception has occurred already." According to the Catholic Health Association, most Catholic hospitals interpret this directive liberally, since conception is hard to verify and there's "no direct scientific evidence" that EC blocks implantation.
Abortion rights supporters are divided, too. Planned Parenthood, the Population Council and similar groups claim that studies prove EC has "no effect on implantation." But Plan B's manufacturer doesn't agree. Neither does James Trussell, a leading authority on EC. Trussell says that while EC usually prevents ovulation, some evidence "suggests a post-fertilization contraceptive effect." A week ago, he warned colleagues, "We cannot conclude that EC [pills] never prevent pregnancy after fertilization."
Who's right? Does EC kill some embryos, or doesn't it? The answer is, we don't know. We can't know, because, as the Catholic Health Association explains, "There is no current method for ascertaining that an ovum has been fertilized until implantation." It takes a week and a half for hormones to register in pregnancy tests. To verify fertilization before then, you'd have to open the woman up. And that would kill the embryo.
Each side spins the uncertainty its way. Opponents of EC say pharmacists are entitled to refuse to sell drugs "suspected" of causing abortions. Proponents demand a "presumption" that Plan B does no such thing. If you're troubled by the moral or factual ambiguities, each side offers the simplifying comfort of semantics. Proponents say EC can't abort a pregnancy, since "medical authorities" define pregnancy as beginning at implantation. Opponents reply that "embryologists" define pregnancy as beginning at fertilization. Everybody wants to give you an authoritative answer, when there isn't one.
If the two camps were to stop spinning and listen for a moment, they might learn something from each other. Proponents of EC, who talk so much about choice and information, might realize that their denials of any abortion risk from Plan B, through semantics or stretching of the evidence, deprive women of informed consent. The right to choose a pill that's probably birth control but possibly abortion includes the right to know that's what you're choosing.
Opponents of EC might realize that the risk of abortion depends on when the drug is taken. The odds that it will abort an embryo, rather than prevent an embryo's creation, are very low. The earlier you get the pill, the lower the odds are. And every successful EC intervention spares a woman the greater danger of ending up with a surgical abortion. Plan B should be available over the counter so it can be what its advocates hope for, not what its enemies fear.
A version of this article also appears in the Outlook section of the Sunday Washington Post.


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The NVIDIA Capture SDK enables game streaming, application streaming and remote desktop displays on NVIDIA hardware (local, remote or cloud). It provides the ability to capture the desktop buffer or application render target as an image or compressed video bitstream that can be transmitted to remote clients or stored locally.
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History of the Minneapolis Police Department
When Minneapolis was incorporated as a city in 1867, the population of 5,000 was a mix of lumbermen, millers and immigrants. Mayor Darilus Morrison appointed H. H. Brackett as the first police chief. Since then, there have been 49 different men who have served as Minneapolis police chief.
The Police Department's duties and responsibilities varied greatly as the city gained in population throughout the last 1800s. By 1889, Minneapolis had grown to be a thriving city of 200,000 with 200 police officers to patrol the 53-square mile city on a budget of $10,972. The city was patrolled primarily by foot beats, with outlying areas of the city covered by horseback. The captain or sergeant was required to stay at the City Hall desk to monitor the newly installed telephone.
With the dawn of the 20 th century came new and innovative ways to serve the 300,000 citizens of this industrial city. The first motorcycles began patrolling in 1909, every criminal was now fingerprinted, and telephone lines were greatly extended throughout the Police Department.
The Great Depression-era of the 1930's saw the Police Department heavily involved in quelling labor disputes and battling gangsters and the effects of Prohibition. The infamous Barker-Karpis gang killed two of MPD's finest in a sensational gun battle outside the Third Northwestern National Bank in Northeast Minneapolis. The years during World War II saw 117 MPD officers fight for their country to overthrow the grip of the Axis Powers. The 1950's brought population growth, stability and prosperity. The city's population increased to over 500,000 in 1950 with nearly 600 sworn officers. The "Drunkometer," forerunner of today's intoxilyzer, was first used in 1952.
The 1960's brought change, turmoil and reform. Major riots along Plymouth Avenue resulted in the creation of the Community Relations Division and the Model Cities Precinct in 1970. The 1970's saw increased reliance on federal grants and the first use of mobile digital technology (MDT's) in squad cars.
The 1980's and 1990's saw community-oriented policing evolve from an effort to get closer to the community to today's fully staffed Community Crime Prevention/SAFE Unit. Several national studies were done in Minneapolis, with its officers playing crucial roles.
Today, the MPD has approximately 840 sworn officers and 300 civilian employees, all of who are fully committed to excellence and to advancing our city's safety, growth and viability.
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2014 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter First Drive
Preemptive Strike: There's a New Base Engine -- and Much More
If you've been paying attention to the full-size van market, you know a battle is brewing. Ram's ProMaster is coming soon, as is the Ford Transit. Yet the Sprinter, the van that made the look and attitude of the segment more Eurocentric when it first went on sale, seemed to plug along for the last few years without many changes. But Mercedes was well aware of the upcoming competition, and has made changes for 2014.
The most notable change for the new van is the addition of a second engine. This is the first time the Sprinter will be available with a choice of turbodiesels. The new one is Mercedes' 2.1-liter four, an engine we recently tested in the company's GLK250 BlueTec 4Matic. The engine uses a diesel particulate filter, SCR catalyst, and AdBlue diesel exhaust fluid that's injected into the exhaust system to ensure clean emissions. Part of the reason Mercedes chose to put the smaller turbodiesel in the van is to offer a more fuel-efficient option for fleet buyers. Mercedes made other improvements to increase fuel efficiency in the Sprinter. To reduce friction, Mercedes engineers modified the rear axle and used a new engine oil for the same purpose. The hydraulic power steering pump is only used when needed, instead of running all the time. The base MSRP is expected to be lower with the four, and the fuel economy will be better than with the V-6, so cost of ownership will be lower than in 2013.
In the small sport/utility, the engine output is 200 hp and 369 lb-ft of torque; in the van, the engine has been tuned to put out 161 hp and 265 lb-ft at 1400 rpm.
The little vehicle gets the more powerful version of the engine? While it does seem odd that the four has been detuned that much, Mercedes did it for a couple of reasons. First, to ensure the durability and reliability of the van, the engineers opted to reduce power output. We figure another reason is that offering a four-cylinder with more torque than the optional V-6—with 188 hp and 325 lb-ft—would've been a little awkward to explain at the dealership. After all, pricing of the four-cylinder diesel is said to be lower than with the V-6—why would someone spend more on a less-powerful engine?
As in the GLK, the new Sprinter engine is backed by a seven-speed automatic transmission, but unlike the GLK, the van uses an actual shifter on the center stack, not a stalk on the steering column. The V-6 continues to be backed by a five-speed automatic, even though we hear the V-6 is also backed by the seven-speed in Europe.
Rumor has it the reason the V-6 didn't get upgraded with the new trans is the company didn't want to deal with getting it approved by the EPA, especially considering Mercedes would be spending money to get use of the transmission approved behind an unchanged engine. Maybe that change will come with a mid-cycle refresh.
Despite our initial skepticism when looking at the small displacement and relatively low horsepower of the four-cylinder engine, we found that, for most people, the 2.1-liter will suffice. On our drive, Mercedes had all the vans already set up with payload in the back. The model we drove was a Crew Van, with pallets of sinks tied down in back. Considering the majority of Sprinters are upfitted for fleet use (according to Mercedes, about 75 percent of them) and often for delivery service, the four will be plenty of engine for delivery companies. This engine is quick enough around town, and we only really felt its limitations on grades and during hard acceleration. We doubt anyone who gets a Sprinter-based RV will have the option of one with the four; we also expect that those who will often drive the passenger van filled with people will opt for the V-6. There was more engine noise in this application than in the GLK, and we're sure more sound-deadening material was used in the GLK than in a cargo van. The ride is comfortable, there were no noticeable squeaks or rattles, and the steering is accurate. Braking feels firm and confident.
While the van's new styling isn't as dramatic a change as going from the Ford E-Series to the upcoming Transit, there are definite differences in appearance, more noticeable in the cabin than on the body. The front end has been redesigned, but keeps trademark features such as the oversize three-pointed star in the grille and the step in the front bumper that allows you to reach the windshield and the engine bay. The redesigned grille is now more vertical, and was redesigned to allow more airflow. The headlights also were redesigned, and now use daytime running lights. A subtle change is that the badge font is different. Inside are plenty of new features, such as navigation, backup camera, new seat fabric, new center stack design, and a new steering wheel. The cabin still looks like that of a van, but it more resembles a Mercedes interior than before.
A telling part of our drive in the Sprinter was a test of its many available safety features. There are systems that help with dealing with blind spots, holding the current lane, collision prevention assist, and many more—this van offers the most safety features of any full-size van on the market—but one of the most impressive demonstrations was of Crosswind Assist. This system won't be available at launch, but should arrive later in 2014. Anyone who has driven a high-profile van through a nasty crosswind, or has felt the vehicle move when passing a big-rig, knows it can be tough to keep it in the lane. Crosswind Assist automatically intervenes above 50 mph, using stability control to brake individual wheels on the side of the vehicle that's facing the wind. The system is smooth and incredibly effective.
Mercedes-Benz may not have made the van look dramatically different for 2014, but the van is ready for the upcoming competition. We'll have a better idea of how the Sprinter fares after we drive the ProMaster and Transit. The 2014 Sprinter goes on sale this September. Cost hasn't been announced, but for Sprinters powered by the four, pricing will be lower than it was last year.
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|7-speed automatic
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|5390 lb (est)
|8550 lb (est)
|3160 lb (est)
|3500 lb (est)
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In this month's "discussion" segment, we focus on the recent Nintendo Wii press conference and the Tokyo game show. we discuss the announcements that were (and were not) made by Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony. We review the games that they demonstrated as well as discussing whether any of us will be camping for the upcoming console releases.
Our "Retro Respect" segment this time takes a temporary departure from the history of gaming. Instead, we focus on our top 20 favorite arcade games of all time. During the segment we reveal the ultra-scientific process we used to establish our top 20. Who came out on top? You must listen to find out.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Doug Kass of Seabreeze Partners is known for his accurate stock market calls and keen insights into the economy, which he shares with RealMoney Pro readers in his daily trading diary.Among his posts this past week, Kass continued his holiday tradition of paying tribute to Jim Cramer and Dr. Seuss. Please
Jim Cramer's Pool
Originally published on Wednesday, Dec. 19 at 9:15 a.m. EST. As another year passes, it's time to revisit the annual tribute to Cramer's vision.
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,Another year is about to pass. Remarkably, next month will mark my 12th year as a regular on these pages. That's a lot of words, ideas and investment observations. I actually started out writing on TheStreet.com back in the late 1990s, when I penned the column "The Contrarian." At that time, the site was a relatively new concept and a real-time experiment that struggled in its infancy, but it began to flourish even as the economy and markets suffered in 2001. Since I started writing for Jim Cramer, we have not only dealt with the market's ups and downs, but we have shared some of life's experiences together -- through visits, emails, telephone conversations and other personal correspondences. I have defended Jimmy, I have written a piece called "On Jim Being Cramer" and have transformed myself at times into the Anti-Cramer. I have agreed and disagreed with him -- all the while with maximum respect for Jim as a businessman, an investor, a friend, an author, a media figure and, most important, as a dad. Happily, over more than a decade, I have met numerous other new friends -- both virtually and in person -- from my experience as a member of the community at TheStreet. We have all experienced some terribly emotional times -- most notably the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, and the loss of contributor Bill "Budman" Meehan and many of our friends. We mourned together. However, as painful as that period was, over time we recovered and life went on. We have now recently concluded the celebration of Hanukkah, we're preparing for Christmas and the New Year will be shortly upon us, so it's time to revisit my annual tribute to Jim "El Capitan" Cramer's vision.
Stood puzzling and puzzling; how could it be so?
It came without ribbons. It came without tags.
It came without packages, boxes or bags.
And he puzzled and puzzled till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store?
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?
-- Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas; YouTube link


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|Compiling Data for Food Composition Data Bases (UNU, 1991, 68 p.)
Data on the composition of foods are essential for nutrition research, product development, nutrition education, trade of foods and food products between and within countries, and development of nutrition and agricultural policies by government agencies. Food composition data have been compiled into many data bases throughout the world. As the uses of those data increase, a larger number of individuals and organizations become involved in their compilation, and thus the need for guidelines on their gathering, formatting, and documentation increases. This document describes and presents recommendations for the procedures involved with compiling the values for food composition data bases and tables. Specifically addressed are the five major ways to obtain data on the nutrient content of foods:
Two main themes of this manual are (1) the importance of careful definition of the data base, in terms of its ultimate use, before the actual process of compilation begins, and (2) the importance of careful documentation of the procedures used to obtain the data. The data gathering, manipulation, and estimation techniques associated with each data point in a data base should be clearly identified and described. In addition to fostering compatibility and consistency between data bases, adequate documentation will also give the users an awareness of the extent and limitations of the data and a clear indication of necessary and potential improvements to the data base.
Compiling a data base is a complex endeavour requiring major effort; it is the goal of this document to provide guidelines to data base compilers to assist them in focusing their efforts, in the hope that future data bases will be more compatible, more consistent, and more useful to a wider audience.
William M. Rand is Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Community Health of the Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Jean A. T. Pennington is Associate Director for Dietary Surveillance in the Division of Nutrition, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, Washington, D.C., USA.
Suzanne P. Murphy is Assistant Research Nutritionist in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
John C. Klensin is Principal Research Scientist in the Department of Architecture, Project Coordinator for INFOODS, and Director of the INFOODS Secretariat at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
The technical committee for this document consisted of the above and: G. Beecher, Nutrient Composition Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, USA L. BergstrNational Food Administration, Sweden I. M. Buzzard, Nutrition Coordinating Center, University of Minnesota, USA D. Feskanich, INFOODS Secretariat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA F. N. Hepburn, Human Nutrition Information Service, Department of Agriculture, USA J. M. Holden, Nutrient Composition Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, USA L. W. Hoover, University of Missouri, USA B. Perloff, Human Nutrition Information Service, Department of Agriculture, USA G. J. Petot, Case Western Reserve University, USA W. Polacchi, Italy N. Rawson, Campbell Soup Company, USA W. A. van Staveren, Agricultural University, the Netherlands K. Yasumoto, Kyoto University, Japan


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Coast Guard med-evacs man with heart disease in Gulf
Coast Guard med-evacs man with heart disease in Gulf
The Coast Guard says it safely evacuated a man with heart disease from a sailboat in the Gulf.
In a news release, the Coast Guard said officials received a call early Thursday about a husband and wife aboard a 64-foot sailboat that was bound for Houston after a trip to Cozumel, Mexico.
The woman reported that the man, who had a history of heart disease, had slumped over and was unresponsive.
A helicopter from the Coast Guard Aviation Training Center in Mobile, Ala., hoisted the man and woman from the sailboat and took them to the Coast Guard Air Station in Belle Chasse, where the man was reported in stable condition Thursday.


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Saker out. Finally.
33.1 W McRae to Saker : Good ball tossed up outside the off stump. Saker plays forward and the ball takes the edge to McCauley at first slip who takes the catch low to his right. That was a good catch.
R. Saker c N. McCauley b. G. McRae 78 (94b 6x4 1x6) SR:82.98
End of over 37 (5 runs) - Male Models(181-4) RR 4.89
T. Belsak 7 (17b) , A. Frost 6 (9b) , H. Kutcher 9-0-26-1
Should face around 260 from here, which is touch and go.
Interesting to see BEST Indies doing so well.